Synthesized Voices

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
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Charles Dodge

1975

Music/Sound

LP + Poem Lyrics

The Listening Room

Description

At a time when most of the world had never heard a computer talk, Charles Dodge released an album of computer-generated speech that manipulated phrasing and timbre to squeeze emotions from a computer.

The tracks on Synthesized Voices showed that computers could be used for artistic expression, not just as calculating machines. Today's vocal effects, electronic music, and even AI voices, trace their roots back to artistic pioneers such as Dodge.

Lyrics:

When I am with you, I am in two places at once.

When you are with me, you have just arrived

with a suitcase which you pack

with one hand and unpack with the other.